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Chip e Joanna Gaines sembravano destinati al matrimonio fin dall’inizio. Mentre lavorava con il padre di Joanna in un negozio di automobili, Chip si è innamorato della sua futura moglie prima di incontrarla dopo che suo padre ha pubblicato una foto di famiglia nel suo ufficio. “Sapevo che un giorno l’avrei sposata solo vicino alla foto sul muro”, ha ricordato a PopSugar nel 2018. Sebbene Joanna non fosse immediatamente convinta che fosse materiale per il matrimonio, sono passati solo pochi mesi dall’inizio della relazione che la sua mente è stata presa su. “Sapevo che era quello perché sapevo di potermi fidare di lui”, ha detto la personalità di HGTV.
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It was not always smooth sailing for the “Fixer Upper” hosts, as their different personalities clashed. “Early on we had our fair share of fights and figuring out where the boundaries were,” Joanna told People in 2016. Their varying approaches to both life and business wound up complementing each other. “Match made in heaven is not the term you would use to describe us. But when we mixed our personalities together, it created a spark,” Joanna said.
In 2017, rumors circulated that their relationship was on the rocks and that the television hosts could call it quits. Chip cleared the air about a possible divorce by responding to a tweet. “Won’t ever happen.. you can take that to the bank!” he tweeted. Nearly five years later, the couple is still together and has cause for celebration.
The Gaines’ sweet messages to each other
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Joanna Gaines celebrated her wedding anniversary with Chip Gaines with an understated, but touching Instagram post on June 2. She uploaded a snap of the couple cozying up in a restaurant booth and wrote, “19 years” along with a heart emoji, plus “#ilikeyoualot” in the caption. There was a sweet smile across Joanna’s face in the photo as she rested her head on her husband’s shoulder. Fans filled the comment section with congratulatory words. “Happy anniversary! You’re an inspiration,” one follower wrote. “You guys have packed a lot of living into 19 years,” another added.
Two years earlier, Chip celebrated their anniversary with a moving Instagram post of his own. The “Fixer Upper: Welcome Home” host posted a throwback photo from their wedding day, where he planted a kiss on his wife’s cheek. Chip gushed over Joanna in the caption. “Everything about you has made everything about me better … After all these years Joanna Lea Stevens, you really are the girl of my dreams,” he wrote in 2020.
The following year — to celebrate 18 years of marriage — Joanna marked the occasion on Instagram with a compilation video of the couple’s various traveling exploits together. Joanna had previously fawned over Chip on Instagram in a birthday post in 2020 where she wrote about him not only being a great partner, but a wonderful father. “You teach us to discover paths that have yet to be taken,” she wrote. “You really do make life extra great.”
